Interim Chancellor’s Message: Welcome to Spring 2018

The new year brings with it excitement and aspirations, and I hope that you will find much to engage with your university in the coming semester.

Aloha University of Hawai‘i at Hilo ‘Ohana,

Welcome back to UH Hilo for the spring 2018 semester, and welcome to all the new faces on campus!

The new year brings with it excitement and aspirations, and I hope that you will find much to engage with your university in the coming semester. There will be many opportunities through invited speaker series, exhibits, performances, and presentations on the amazing work by UH Hilo faculty. There will be professional development events that will stretch all of us to learn.

Our students are why we are here. We are carefully managing classes so that students have the classes they need to graduate. We are working with our legislators and board to bring resources for important initiatives on campus, including funding for students to build leadership skills, community engagement and workforce skills, as well as initial funding for the development of the Kalakaua Marine Science Center at Puako in West Hawai‘i.

And there will be events for fun. The annual UH Hilo Ho‘olaulea is upcoming on January 13, 2018, with entertainment, food and crafts, exhibits in the Performing Arts Center parking lot. We will be recognizing science and exploration with our community with the Ellison Onizuka Science Day and the Science Olympiad as well as sustainability as the co-host of the UH System Sustainability Summit in February. In April we will be welcoming Hōkūleʻa into our own Hilo Bay.